Researching John Spike
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 92 people with the Spike surname? In that year Spike was ranked number 3487 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Spike on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Spike and the Spike Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 145 people with the Spike surname in the UK? Spike is now ranked number 3906 for popularity in the UK. |
Spike Genealogy Databases
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John Spike
John Thomas Spike (born November 8, 1951 in New York City) is an American art historian, curator, and author, specializing in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods. He is also a contemporary art critic and past director of the Florence Biennale.
Spike earned his B.A. at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation was a study of Mattia Preti, a painter of the Caravaggio school. In 1999, he was awarded honorary citizenship of Taverna, Italy, Preti's birthplace. In recognition of his studies of two Knights of St. John, Mattia Preti and Caravaggio, in 2013 Queen Elizabeth II appointed Spike to the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
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